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THE establishment of regulated web shops – even the promotion of a web-shop industry – seems to be a foregone conclusion in government circles as Referendum Day, January 28, nears.
THE SEEMINGLY cavalier attitude of this government towards the urgent need to cut costs rather than to add to the deficit by creating more jobs for “the boys”, has left even foreigners concerned for the future of this country.
AT DAWN tomorrow the year 2013 will be ushered in with a rush of frenzied dancers, ker-licking cow-bells, throbbing drums and joyous Bahamians as the traditional junkanoo parade dances into full swing.
NO one should be surprised at Moody’s latest assessment of this country’s GDP growth for 2013...
TOMORROW is Christmas — the day that Christ was born. Translated into human terms, Christmas is a time of unconditional love.
ON TUESDAY Prime Minister Perry Christie agreed to meet with the Customs and Immigration union to hear the salary complaints of its workers.
THE late Sir Stafford Sands, the Bahamas’ first finance minister, would often warn that “a piece of paper will stay still and let you write anything on it.”
SUSPENDED NIB Director Algernon Cargill has instructed his lawyer to make a formal complaint to Data Protection Commissioner George Rodgers after more of his personal information, filed at National Insurance, was leaked on the Internet over the weekend.
YESTERDAY the newly appointed National Insurance Board came out in full support of their chairman Marco City MP Gregory Moss, who seems unclear about his duties.
All week a-word-of-mouth rumour has been circulating that the PLP was busy hatching a plot to “smear” the reputation of suspended NIB Director Algernon Cargill.
ON September 13, 1992, former prime minister Hubert Ingraham, in announcing his first government boards, said he was breaking a 24-year PLP tradition of giving the chairmanship of public utilities to members of parliament.
JAMES Smith, a former governor of the Central Bank and finance minister, wonders whether the Christie government recognises that it has “a very serious problem” in this country’s financial position.
THOSE plotting to take control of the National Insurance Board did not take the measure of a man who valued his reputation more than his life — a man who was prepared to gamble all his material possessions to fund a court case to save his good name.
“ERADICATE it or regulate it,” is Bishop Simeon Hall’s position on the question of gambling.
THE PLP was never opposed to a referendum to grant Bahamian women the same rights as Bahamian men to pass citizenship on to their children, Social Services Minister Melanie Griffin said yesterday.
“WHEN a man is on trial for serious crime,” said Lord Denning, “trial by jury has no equal.”
FOREIGN Affairs Minister Fred Mitchell, alarmed by Canada’s recent inclusion of a warning in its travel advisory of the dangers of investing in the Bahamas, has pledged that he and the government will address the problem.
ON Monday a special meeting of the House will be held to mark the 50th anniversary of the women’s suffrage movement.
IF THE FNM had won the government Bahamians would not now be arguing about a gambling referendum.
ON January 28 Bahamians will be faced with a damned-if-you-do, damned-if-you-don’t decision.
OVER THE weekend we had a call from an angry citizen — someone in a position to know what he was talking about.
PRIME MINISTER Perry Christie seems confused about the operation of web shops. So are we. Can you imagine the number of Bahamians — except, of course, web shop operators —who are even more confused than we are.
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama's re-election means he can sustain the strategic shift toward the Asia-Pacific started during his first term but the attention and resources the region gets may be hostage to instability in the Middle East and budget battles in Washington.
ATHENS, Greece — Greek trade unions launched a general strike and nationwide protests on Tuesday against a new package of austerity measures, to be voted on this week, which would condemn Greece to more years of hardship in exchange for rescue loans.
ON SUNDAY Prime Minister Perry Christie spoke at a special Bethel Baptist Church service to commemorate National Women’s Month and the 50th anniversary of the women’s suffrage movement in the Bahamas.